Jak
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Many folks are trying to figure out the $$$. School districts are having to make hard choices in just keeping staff. A trip to Ohio to play with flags in a gym looks excessive to outsiders. Just because So-and-so HS has been competing since (insert year), doesn't mean they HAVE to compete every year.
As it has done in the past, WGI will adjust and roll with the punches.
Are there school districts out there that pay for winterguard? That's shocking to me. In my part of the country every band and color guard is 100% self-funded by fees and fundraisers. The only thing the school pays for is the band director's salary and the electricity bill in the bandroom.
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The opening was Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre, then a choral version of Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber called Agnus Dei. I didn't recognize the instrumental stuff.
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It seems awfully pretentious to me to refer to color guard as "art." However, if that's what you're going to do, you need to be able to accept criticism like any artist would. It seems unusual for an "artist" to forbid people to express negative opinions about his work.
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Center Grove has nice fire batons. And Carmel's shimmer hoop feature is extra nice.
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Rue Dumaine is wonderful! It's a WGI tradition for me.
I always wonder what the people of Dayton think about WGI Championships each year. Last year a guy at Arby's asked me if there was some huge cheerleading competition in town because there were high school girls on school buses all over town. In 2007 (WGI's 30th anniversary), the barista at the Starbucks by Nutter Center asked me if I was here for the porn convention. I asked him what he meant, and he said "You're wearing one of those XXX badges that everybody has on."
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A whole bunch of guards used that song 2 years ago. I believe they all edited it out.
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SA Class at the Mid-South Regional will have their prelims at Fred J Page High School in Franklin, TN. Semis and Finals will be at Lipscomb University.
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Center Grove 97 (Joy)
Chimeras 99 (Time to Say Goodbye)
These are 2 of my personal faves that have stood the test of time. Many more will come to mind if I think long enough.
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How do you get people to show up to check out your guard. We are kinda low on members so far this season and I am out of ideas how to get bodies. any thoughts????
It's really difficult to do if you don't have an established reputation where people will want to come march for you. You could try recruiting at local marching band competitions. Try to reach students who love color guard but don't have a winter program at their school.
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Scholastic shows to watch:
1994-2000 Center Grove High School; especially 1998 and 1999
1997 Lassiter High School
I think 1997 Center Grove was their best ever. Just beautiful!
I liked Lassiter a lot in 98 and 99. Don't think I remember 97. What did they do?
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my sources say there will be a new independant guard coming out in the atlanta ga. area!
Did Adam Sage get fired again?
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The soundtrack, if you listen to it is wind in the woods with the sound of a vortex in the middle. You have to applaud the members because their soundtrack has really no key moments that they are staying in synch just by practice. And also their work and movement isnt reflective of the soundtrack...the soundtrack is reflective of their work and movement. And what if they performed to total silence? would you penalize them in their GE score because they had no music? Its not about the actual soundtrack....its about the relevence of the soundtrack to the show. it works for this show
I certainly agree about the difficulty of performing with no discernable pulse, and I give them credit for that! I don't know about scoring them in GE; I'm not a judge. I know the sheets talk about musicality. Don't quite know how you would reconcile that...
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Onyx this year is pushing new boundries and I applaud that.
I think Onyx is great on their equipment and they move beautifully. They're really doing amazing things! But I don't get the soundtrack. First of all, I'll have to leave the gym next time they perform because I can't listen to that again. Secondly, how is what they're doing musical when there's no music? And I wonder how a GE judge scores them when that's such an important part of the criteria.
Can you imagine rehearsing to that? "Hey, let's start at that part that goes 'grrrrrrrehhhhhgrrrrr'."
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Apparently, as everyone can tell either the guards down south are better or the guards up north aren't getting proper credit. Any insight would be great?
Southern guards mature faster. I think it's the heat...
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Huh. I'm not sure what that's referring to, but I don't remember them having a guard in years. I checked their circuit website to be sure. They were not at that show, nor do they have any events or scores previous to 2010. Strange...
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Believe it or not, this is Father Ryan's first year to have a winterguard. They're doing a great job!
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What a wonderful website. The recruiting video is pure genius.
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State Street Practice.
That's a clean flag toss!
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writing the resumer well typeing it the formats what i should put on it
the teaching job got her im my town was my old high school so they just hired me after my first summer of dci
You really have to know someone to get a teaching job with a drum corps.
Please make sure you use spell check and punctuate your resume correctly.
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If you mean Low Cost as in under $7000, I don't know of anyone. If you mean on the low end as in "I'll pay up to $10,000", then I know of one who might be able to get into that price range.
PS-- if you're ok with/willing to go with MESH instead of full-vinyl, you can save a $1000 or so dollars.
Best bet-- find a local printing company who is willing to donate the cost of the printing. You'll most likely still have to provide the floor tarp. Doesn't hurt to ask, at any rate!
Mesh floors are wonderful; I don't know why more groups don't use them. Unlike a vinyl floor, a mesh floor lays totally flat-no wrinkles or air trapped under it. And they're so light that 3 people can easily lift the floor. They don't look mesh when they're printed, though. They look like a regular floor, except not shiny.
The only problem I've found is that if someone does a pirouette towards the edge of the floor, the floor will twist up under their foot because it's so light.
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so, 2 of the 4 rifles rotated together?
Yeah, I know it doesn't sound like much. But you would have a hard time finding 2 rifles anywhere rotate together like that.
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Just wondering what everybody's favorite moments from prelims are on Fan Network.
I was watching Aimachi yesterday and saw something amazing. At 1:37, there's a group of 4 rifles on the back right that throw a big toss. Watch the two rifles on the left of the block. I don't think I've ever seen weapons rotate that cleanly! It's like when you go to Best Buy and see all the tvs on the same channel at the same time. Usually in WGI the weapons go up and come down together, but they're kind of fuzzy in the air. It's so nice to see a toss that clean.
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That's my point. The flags I've ordered from Band Hall have not held up well. Does a heat cutter work on non-lame' fabric as well?
Really? I've never ordered Band Hall flags, but we use the same method they do, and our flags never fall apart. We'll have to do an occasional repair if we get a little hole or something, but they hold up really well. You can heat cut lame or poly silk. It doesn't work on real silk. If you use it for lame, you should also fray check the seams, because lame just doesn't want to hold up.
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Get a heat cutter, then you don't have to do french seams. It seals the edges (just like a selvage) when you cut the pieces so they won't fray. If you order a flag from the Band Hall, that is exactly what they do.
Every flag I've ever had that WASN't sewn with french seams was a total wreck by the end of the season.
Fan Network, 2012 edition
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Yikes! What happened to Center Grove? Haven't seen them yet, but I noticed they got a 60 at the Indy Regional. Was it bad?